• Question: which is your favourite model?

    Asked by josiejump to Chris on 15 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
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      Chris Needham answered on 15 Mar 2010:

      A Gaussian, or Normal distribution is my favourite model. It has just two parameters, a mean, and a standard deviation, yet is very useful to capture the shape of a distribution from many data types. For example, the heights of people in your class probably fit quite well to a bell shaped Normal distribution.

      http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NormalDistribution.html

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